This video explores the American Civil War through the lens of the Confederacy, revealing the motivations and anxieties that ...

The 1850s and 1860s in America saw the rise of the “sentimental domestic idea.” Women were held up as examples of purity, piety, and submissiveness. In the American antebellum period, precise and ...

Cecily Zander, an assistant professor of history at the University of Wyoming, has earned the 2025 Center for Civil War Research’s Wiley-Silver Prize for the best first book in Civil War history. This ...

William Faulkner famously wrote, "The past is never dead. It's not even past." That could describe some of the recent historical discourse on the presidential campaign trail. First came Republican ...

During a press conference at the White House earlier this year in June, Donald Trump struggled to remember when the American Civil War ended. Anyone who paid attention in history class should know ...

You want to learn more about the Civil War, right? Of course you do. It is a significant part of U.S. history that continues to impact Americans today. From 1861 to 1865, bloody battles were waged ...

The bloodiest day in American history occurred 150 years ago, on Sept. 17, 1862, at the Battle of Antietam (Union name) or Sharpsburg (Confederate name). More Americans died on this single day than ...

For Janet Whaley, the American Civil War was never more real as when she held in her hands the discharge papers of one Elias Whaley, a Union soldier in the 11th Indiana Zouaves. Elias was her ...

On the occasion of the ACLU’s centennial, this essay collection explores many critical moments in the organization’s history. In 1917, war fever was sweeping the country. So was anti-dissent hysteria.

WASHINGTON (AP) — As Republicans make their case for the future, they keep getting stuck on the past. Such moments reflect tension inside the GOP — the Party of Lincoln that abolished slavery, won the ...